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<br><div><div>On Aug 13, 2011, at 8:52 PM, Eli Barzilay wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">"They [...] were presented 5 different options for downloading</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">DrRacket for Mac".</div> </blockquote><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Yes, but was one of them clearly distinguished from the rest, to</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">indicate "this is probably what you want"?</div> </blockquote><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Yes, by being the first -- which is the same as things are now --</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">which is why I bothered with trying to make it less visible.</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>If a user KNOWS that the web server has made a probably-correct guess at which version the user needs, that's great.</div><div><br></div><div>But by definition, we're concerned with users who have little or no technical background, and probably very little technical confidence. Such a user is left staring at a long list of slightly-different version names, with no basis for choosing one over the others but a very real fear that choosing the wrong version will cause the computer to explode. The probably-correct answer has to be SEPARATE from the rest, to give the user confidence.</div><div><br></div></div>A minimal solution would be to use the current format, but add the text "We've made our best guess as to which version you need. If you're sure this guess is wrong, feel free to select a different one from the menu. If you pick the wrong one, the worst thing that can happen is [FILL THIS IN]."<br><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div>Stephen Bloch</div><div><a href="mailto:sbloch@adelphi.edu">sbloch@adelphi.edu</a></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div><br></body></html>